India vs England: After Headingly heroes, Rishabh Pant on the verge of joining the elite of cricket in England. Cricket news
New Delhi: Rishabh Pant is to enter an aristocratic club to go to the batsmen as India for a second test of the series against England in Edgbaston starting on 2 July. After his twin centuries in the Headingley, the 26-year-old wicketkeeper-Better is now a ton of a tonne to be included in a famous list including Don Bradman, Rahul Dravid and Bryan Lara.Go beyond the border with our YouTube channel. Subscribe now!In the first Test in Leeds, the pants broke 134 and 118, both showed a bright array of stroke in the innings. Pant stood out as the main attraction of the match, despite India’s five-wicket defeat after setting a target of 371 to England.
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He now has an average of 808 runs in 10 tests in England at an average of 42.52, including four centuries. His highest score on English soil – 146 runs off just 111 balls – came in Edgbaston in 2022, when he rescued India from 98 to 5 and helped post for the first time after 416. Although India eventually lost that match, the innings of pants remains one of the best by an Indian wicketkeeper abroad.
If he scores a hundred in Edgbaston again, pants will become only the seventh visiting batter to score in three gradual trials in England for centuries. The exclusive list includes Don Bradman, Warren Bardsley, Charles Macartney, Bryan Lara, Rahul Dravid and Derryl Michelle. Dravid remains the only Indian in the list that achieved the achievement in 2002.Pants, already holding records for most centuries by an Indian wicketkeeper and scoring the most runs by an Asian gloves in army countries, is now a golden opportunity to pursue its name in history books.
